Zathras Warn, but No One Listen to Zathras by NHØ Bananapants
January 21st, 2008 2:53 PMNo morning sun. No beams of light. Just gray, encompassing everything around us.
Others have come for the pilgrimage. Others join in our journey. We do not lose ourselves in this foreign place due to the throngs of travelers. Many came from far away to witness the events today.
We assemble, orderly and quiet. Most are not fully awake. The mist blows through and around us.
I lose all sense of time, waiting in my place, no view of the sky, or clouds, or the warm embrace of Sol. Just fluctuating mists and an endless line in front of me and behind.
Hours (or are they minutes? days?) pass. I eat, thinking I might have gotten hungry. I read, but it cannot hold my attention. Every so often we amble forward, take halting steps, only to stop again, amidst the gray nothingness and infinite stream of
people.
I documented the surroundings. The sky is not as bleak in the photos as it was that morning, waiting, interminably waiting.
In the end, we did not get to hear the keynote.
Those bastards!
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Please tell me you don't use QuarkXPress.
I think my hatred of that program is a substantial part of my (undocumented) trajectory of desire. Ugh!
MacWorld was great, and I'm not even too sad I missed the Keynote. Last year's was hard to top.
I may not have occasion to use it anymore since the introduction of 5.0 and the release of Indesign CS2, but Quark 4.1 put a roof on our heads and food on our table for three years in the early 2000s. Quark XPress bought health insurance for my baby. So nyah.
Fair enough.
Seeing folks on our nice, shiny OS X machines starting up a buggy version of Quark in Classic makes me sad inside.
When it was at its height Quark was the best thing out there. I can understand that.
Right now I wish to stay as far away as I can.... their volume licensing scheme kills kittens.
Heh, Macworld. I stopped by Tuesday afternoon (hooray for free floor passes!) intending to do some SFZero schilling, but ended up overwhelmed. Got my QuarkXPress inflatable globe, though.